Irony in The Saddam Execution

As we all know, Saddam Huessein, faced his final demise as he was hanged last week. After decades of murder of hundreds of thousands of people, you can hope that we are one step closer to democracy in Iraq and one step closer to peace in the middle east. Bush himself quoted

Bringing Saddam Hussein to justice will not end the violence in Iraq, but it is an important milestone on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain, and defend itself

However there is more to his execution than just the getting rid of a brutal dictator, behind it included scams to cover up what was wrong.

Soon after his execution, new sites released footage of him before his death, however without sound. At first people wondered why sound was cut out. When one man however managed to release footage that included sound, it became evident why. In the video you can hear the Iraqi officials mocking and taunting Saddam before he was executed. There were witnesses shouting “go to hell” and chanting “long live Muqtada al-Sadr,” the notorious murderer who Is known for his assaults on innocent civilians. The sound was censored because obviously neither government wants their people to know some of the corruption behind the new Iraqi democratic government.

The man accused of taping and releasing the video has been arrested and awaiting his sentence. Apparently in the new democratic government videotaping and getting out a video showing the truth is a crime. And sadly the US government helped support the investigation to find the man responsible for the video.

Another Irony that can be seen is Saddam’s trial were the charges against him. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of 148 people in the Iraqi town of Dujail back in 1982. Basically Saddam was tried for assaulting a town not the gassing of thousands of Shiite’s and Kurds. The only feasible reason explanation is that we don’t want the trial going back to the source of these. Saddam gassing of these innocent people was possible due to our generosity in giving him large stockpiles of these weapons. But our government wants to hide that we were ever part of the problem.

Saddam’s death, as atrocious of a person as he may have been, is nothing for celebration. In the new Iraqi Democratic government, a convicted criminal was hanged, a punishment no modern government uses. The so called democracy tried to hide their corruption by cutting out sound out of a video. Our government completely avoided being suspected of any crime. The death of one man does not signify democracy.